NASA Artemis II rocket rollout
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NASA will host a news conference at 3 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 12, at Kennedy Space Center to highlight progress toward the Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight of the Artemis program, which is intended to carry astronauts around the Moon.
Two NASA astronauts will conduct a long-delayed spacewalk today (March 18), and you can watch the action live. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams will venture outside the International Space Station (ISS) today at around 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT), kicking off a spacewalk expected to last about 6.5 hours.
Lockheed Martin designed NASA's Quesst mission. An experimental aircraft called X-59 is being tested as a significant part of this mission. It will at.